There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.